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EXECUTED by the parties the day and year first above written.

CITY OF NASHUA

Mayor James W. Donchess, duly authorized

Mayor’s authority pursuant to R-21-xxxx approved by the Nashua Board of Alderman on
XXXXXKXX.

State of New Hampshire
County of Hillsborough } ss.

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on this day of

, 2021, by James W. Donchess, Mayor of the City of Nashua, a New
Hampshire municipal corporation, on behalf of the municipality.

Notary Public

Printed Name
My Commission Expires:

LIBERTY UTILITIES
(ENERGYNORTH NATURAL GAS) CORP.

Neil Proudman, President, duly authorized
State of New Hampshire
County of } ss.

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on this day of
, 2021, by Neil Proudman, President. Liberty Utilities (EnergyNorth Natural
Gas) Corp. on behalf of said corporation.

Notary Public

Printed Name
My Commission Expires:

Michael Richard Paradis

Melania Marcu

State of New Hampshire
County of } ss.

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on this day of
2021, by Michael Richard Paradis.

Notary Public

Printed Name
My Commission Expires:

State of New Hampshire
County of } ss.

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on this day of
2021, by Melania Marcu.

Notary Public

Printed Name
My Commission Expires:

LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2021

RESOLUTION: R-21-169
PURPOSE: Authorizing the City of Nashua to enter an Agreement and

Consent to Joint Use with Liberty Utilities and making a
supplemental appropriation of $38,394

ENDORSERS: Alderman Patricia Klee

Budget Review Committee

COMMITTEE Planning Board
ASSIGNMENT: Board of Public Works

FISCAL NOTE: Supplemental appropriation of money received by Liberty
Utilities for a specific purpose.

ANALYSIS

This resolution authorizes the City of Nashua to enter into an Agreement and Consent to Joint
Use with Liberty Utilities. As this includes a modification to an casement granted to the City,
Charter $77 provides that the Planning Board “shall review and make recommendations to the
mayor and board of aldermen on all focations for proposed municipal building and facilities,
including educational, [and] on the purchase and sale of any land by the city.”

This legislation also appropriates $38,394 of F¥2022 unanticipated revenue from Public Works
Administration and Engineering ~ Miscellaneous Revenue into Public Works Administration and
Enyineering — Construction Services. This represents a one-time payment from Liberty Utlities
to cover the City’s cost to reline the existing drain line in the area of 39 Swart Terrace, where the
new vas main will be installed. Charter Sec. 53 permits specific non-budyget. supplementary
appropriations. There should be notice and a public hearing. A two-thirds vote 1s required under
Charter Sec. 56-b for an item or amount not in the mayor’s budget. A roll call is required under
Charter Sec, 49,

This resolution should be referred to the Board of Public Works.

Approved as to account Financial Services Division
structure, numbers,

and amount: By: _/s/ David G. Fredette
Approved as to form: Office of Corporation Counsel

By: /s/ Dory Clarke

Date: September 8, 2021

R-21-170

RESOLUTION

RELATIVE TO THE APPROVAL OF THE IMAGINE NASHUA 2021 MASTER PLAN

CITY OF NASHUA

In the Year Two Thousand and Twenty-One

WHEREAS, the Nashua City Planning Board previously adopted a Master Plan for the
entire City which was enacted into law by the Board of Aldermen by resolutions in December
1985 and in December 2001 pursuant to the City Charter;

WHEREAS, the Nashua City Planning Board and City Administrative Staff have
undertaken a comprehensive revision of the 2000 Master Plan to produce the Imagine Nashua
2021 Master Plan;

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Nashua Revised Ordinances and the statutes and laws of the
State of New Hampshire, the Nashua City Planning Board will hold a public hearing on
September 23, 2021, as required by law, for the Imagine Nashua 2021 Master Plan;

WHEREAS, it is anticipated that the Nashua City Planning Board, pursuant to Charter
Section 77(g), Chapter 16 of the Nashua Revised Ordinances and New Hampshire Revised
Statutes Annotated (RSA Chapter 674), will duly adopt the Imagine Nashua 2021 Master Plan on
September 23, 2021; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the City of Nashua Charter Section 77(g), the adopted Master
Plan must be approved by the Board of Alderman for enactment into law by resolution.

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Aldermen of the City of
Nashua that the Imagine Nashua 2021 Master Plan is hereby adopted, as approved by the Nashua
City Planning Board on September 23, 2021. Said Imagine Nashua 2021 Master Plan shall
supersede the 2000 Master Plan.

LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2021

RESOLUTION: R-21-170

PURPOSE: Relative to the approval of the Imagine Nashua 2021 Master
Plan

SPONSOR(S): Mayor Jim Donchess

COMMITTEE

ASSIGNMENT: Planning and Economic Development Committee

FISCAL NOTE: None.

ANALYSIS

Under RSA Chapter 674 and Charter Section 77(g) the Planning Board formulates the Master
Plan but under Charter Section 77(g) it does not take effect unless adopted by resolution or
ordinance. This resolution would approve the Master Plan anticipated to be adopted by the
Planning Board on September 23, 2021.

Approved as to form: Office of Corporation Counsel

By: VeenBe (ate
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A Special Meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Wednesday, September August 8, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber and via Zoom teleconference which meeting link can be found on the agenda and on the City’s
website calendar.

President Lori Wilshire presided; Legislative Affairs Manager Donna Graham recorded.

Prayer was offered by Legislative Affairs Manager Donna Graham; Alderman June M. Caron led in the Pledge to the
Flag.

Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance. If you are participating via Zoom, please state your presence,
reason for not attending the meeting in person, and whether there is anyone in the room with you during this meeting,
which is required under the Right-To-Know Law.

The roll call was taken with 12 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.,
Alderman Patricia Klee, Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly, Alderman Richard A. Dowd, Alderman June M. Caron,
Alderman Thomas Lopez, Alderman David C. Tencza, Alderwoman Elizabeth Lu, Alderman Jan Schmidt, Alderman
Skip Cleaver (via Zoom), Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright, and Alderman Wilshire.

Alderman Benjamin Clemons, Alderman Ernest Jette, and Alderman Brandon Laws were recorded absent.
COMMUNICATIONS

From: Susan Lovering, City Clerk

Re: Certificate of Sufficiency - Citizens Initiative Petition Proposing to Amend the Charter Relative to the Nomination
and Confirmation of Appointments to the Nashua Board of Police Commissioners

President Wilshire accepted the communication, placed it on file, and scheduled a public hearing on Thursday,
September 16, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. in the aldermanic chamber.

From: Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director
John Griffin, Chief Financial Officer

Cheryl Lindner, Chief of Staff
Re: Vision for usage of ARPA Funds & Guiding Principles

President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on file.
PRESENTATION

American Recovery Program Act (ARPA)

President Wilshire to recognize Mayor Donchess.

Mayor Donchess

Thank you Madam President. So we as you know have received an allocation of American Rescue Plan Funds or
“ARPA’ as it is sometimes referred to. We have an allocation of $8,000,000 per year for two years for a total of $16
million. Now there are regulations and guidance which restrict our use of the funds so we want to make sure that we use
the funds in a way that is consistent with those regulations. Now what we have for you tonight is a presentation as to
several ways that we think we could allocate the money with the underlying idea that we would like to do something that
makes a significant impact on the community in one area or another rather than kind of just spreading everything around
that we really don’t see much of a concrete result. So you'll see several approaches that we could use to make a
significant impact in areas that we think would benefit the city.

Of course, ultimately it is the Board of Aldermen that is required to approve the allocation of the funds so we obviously
will want to work with you closely as to how we should go about this or what approach you think might make the most
sense. One thing that is in all three — we’re going to give you three different alternatives. Of course they can be
adjusted. The one thing that’s in all of them is that there is $1.2 million in year one that would go for revenue
replacement for the deficit in the school lunch program caused by the fact that the school lunches have been free for the

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last year and a half and/or for the last budget year. We could maybe now or later get into the details of why that could
help us in addition to filling that $1.2 million gap. Again, that’s not some kind of mismanagement by the School
Department. It’s simply that they were not allowed to charge for the lunches and of course they’re still feeding kids. The
normal revenue did not come in.

So with those ideas, we also are going to suggest an outreach to Nashua citizens through several avenues — virtual and
if we can do it, in person to get people’s input regarding kind of the basic approaches that we think could be used. First
we wanted to show you what we might present and maybe then together with input from citizens, we could decide how
the money should best be allocated for the benefit of Nashua. So with that, I’m going to give you Mr. Cummings and Ms.
Lindner who are going to present you with the details or the different approaches that we think might be possible.

Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director
If | may Madam President.

President Wilshire

Certainly. I’m sorry. Director Cummings.

Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director

Yes thank you. So for the record, Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development. I’m here this evening with Cheryl
Lindner the Chief of Staff, and not with us this evening John Griffin, Chief Financial Officer. He would have been part of
this presentation if he wasn’t on vacation. It should be noted from the onset that really John and Cheryl have taken the
lead in becoming the local experts on ARPA funding. | recently joined the team to just help facilitate the community
outreach effort that we'll be looking to undertake.

With that being said, my goal this evening is to hopefully develop some sort of consensus on our approach and make
sure we have an understanding of the framework or the guiding principles as we start this evening the conversation on
how to use the ARPA funds. My memo to you of August 26 speaks to this in more detail and the PowerPoint
presentation you’re about to receive will also recap what I’m about to say. What I’m hoping that we do this evening as |
said a second ago is start the conversation. By no means are we looking to conclude it but it would be good to develop
agreed upon approach and framework. With that being said, I’m going to hand it off to Cheryl and | will click through the
Slides.

Cheryl Lindner, Chief of Staff

Thank you everyone. So we’re going to start with a little bit of background and history on ARPA. On March 11, the
American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law. It’s a historic $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill and the aide for the
State of New Hampshire totals just over $994 million. The Treasury announced that Nashua will receive $16.1 million in
federal funds. As the Mayor said, $1.2 million is needed for Fiscal Year 2022 revenue replacement, which leaves us
with a balance of approximately $14,483,777 available to plan and spend. In addition to our amount, Hillsborough
County is set to receive approximately $81 million in funding and we are beginning talks with the County to see what
the plans are for their amount of funding.

There's four eligible uses for the funding with the Treasury interim guidance. So some of the areas for funding are
responding to acute pandemic response needs, filling revenue shortfalls, supporting communities and populations
hardest hit by COVID-19. And we're going to talk a little bit about that as we go through the presentation. These are
some of the links. If you go to the US Treasury site, the FAQs are very helpful as well as the Interim Final Rule.
There is an executive section for the Interim Final Rule. So you should start there if you want some light reading.
Then the Interim Final Rule is several hundred pages. So the links are US Treasury and you can type in “ARPA” and
it will fill in for you.

Some key dates for ARPA - March 3" is going to be the beginning of the recovery fund period. So expenses after
March 3" in those four areas will be covered and then we also have to spend the money or designate the money by
December 31, 2024. All funds must be spent and all work performed by December 31, 2026. So there's a little bit of
time they give you to finish your projects. They give you two additional years to finish the projects.

We're going to talk a little bit about the eligible uses and as | said, they fall into four buckets. One is the replacement of
public sector revenue loss. The second is to support public health response to the pandemic. The third is to address
the negative economic impacts and this is specific to workers, families, small businesses, impacted industries and the

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public sector, and then water, sewer and broadband infrastructure projects.

The revenue replacement is to replace any reduction in revenue experienced due to the pandemics such as revenue
from taxes or miscellaneous general revenue. Cities are permitted to calculate the extent of reduction in revenue as a
four points in time and those are December 31* of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. So we were able to project our
revenue loss for the period December 31, 2020 already.

The next eligible use is the public health response. These expenses can include vaccination programs, testing,
contact tracing, access to health services, public communication efforts, purchases of personal protection, equipment,
and capital investments in public facilities used to meet the pandemic needs. So physical plant improvements to
public hospitals and health clinics are some of the uses there.

The third bucket is going to be addressing the negative economic impacts and as | said, these are two workers,
families, small businesses, impacted industries in the public sector. So this type of assistance can include but not be
limited to food assistance, rent, mortgage, utility assistance, internet access, and job training. Also to small
businesses and nonprofits, you can you can sub out loans or grants to mitigate financial hardships or you can you can
give those to the nonprofits and small businesses that were hurt during the pandemic. They saw declines in revenues
or impacts. You can also offer in-kind assistance to implement COVID-19 prevention or mitigation. There's also a line
for premium pay for essential workers and aid can also be provided to tourism, travel, and hospitality industries that
were all negatively impacted by the pandemic.

The last bucket is the water sewer and broadband infrastructure category. This is to improve access to clean drinking
water, invest in wastewater and storm water infrastructure, and expand broadband access. Eligible costs are for
water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure projects and those costs must be obligated by December 31, 2024 and
the period of performance will run until December 31, 2026, which will provide time to complete projects funded using
these ARPA funds.

In the broadband category. Broadband improvements designed to serve underserved, unserved, or underserved
households and businesses defined as those that are not currently served by a wireline connection are also eligible.

Now we're going to move on to the ineligible uses. So pension funds are ineligible, rainy day funds or financial
reserves. We're not able to replenish any of those. General infrastructure which is spending above the amount
allocated under the revenue loss is not an eligible expense. Also debt service and legal settlements is ineligible.

So now | want to pass it back to Director Cummings. Thank you for your time. He's going to continue with the
presentation. He's going to talk about guiding principles and the community outreach we're planning to do.

Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director

Thank you Cheryl. So the main thrust of why we're here this evening is to start the conversation on whether we can
develop a framework based upon some guiding principles. What I'm suggesting to this body is that we look at projects
with the lens of, you Know, how the funds should be used in a manner where there is a meaningful and lasting impact.
So what do | mean by that, | would like to suggest that when a project is brought before us that it have significant
meaning and we can stand the test of time. | think we should be strategic while deciding how these funds should be
used to improve the community and most importantly, | think we need to be mindful that this is a one-time infusion of
funds and that you should look at this as providing money for once and once only and if there's a reoccurring cost, |
wouldn't necessarily want you to be taking that on unless you knew that you were obligating yourself to future costs
moving forward. So I'm suggesting that these types of guiding principles be the lens that we use while judging the
various projects and the conversation as we as we move forward.

But as | said from the onset, this is the start of the conversation and really it's what do we think, and what does the
community think, and we want to make sure people feel valued and encouraged to participate. So in the memo |
presented to you all, there was some key outreach elements that were developed. One being we put up a webpage
already on the city's website. At the end of this presentation, I'll go to it and I'll show it to you. But there there's a form
where the public can fill out the form and it will be sent into Cheryl and myself and john Griffin basically giving people's
feedback on this draft presentation but then ultimately, the priorities that we’re suggesting.

There is some outreach events, both in person and virtual. So we have to set virtually for September 21° and
September 23". We have an in-person forum set for September 29'". We have a dedicated business forum set up for
September 22"4. That one would be virtual.

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The timeline. So ideally we will do this outreach. We will continue to massage and craft a plan. I'd like to have some
data and you know, some sort of conclusion arrived at in mid-October. Ideally around your October 12" meeting and
hopefully the work we do will inform the subcommittee that will hear the resolution that is going to be presented to you
on September 14". So ultimately, the ideal would be to have some sort of finalized plan by mid to end the fall.

So some ideas for discussion purposes only and | want to note that the numbers being discussed right now are really
for illustrative purposes is the idea of maybe we use the money to replace future revenue. And so out of the $16
million, maybe we take 13 of that million and you put it into the operational budget for the city. And why are we doing
that? So we know we need to close a gap in the budget, and we also know that there is a revaluation going on, and
with the revaluation going on, you Know, we anticipate that the tax rate may go up over the coming years. You could
massage in this $13 million to help stabilize the tax rate and it's something that, you know, this body may want to think
about in the coming weeks.

Another idea, again, wanting to make a big impact is we take and put $10 million into affordable housing and in
particularly Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Strategies and how we were to use that $10 million, we would need to
develop but it might be a way to make a significant dent in what | believe is the number one issue that we hear about
over and over again in the community. So, again, offering that up as maybe Plan B and ultimately Plan C, look at
maybe reconfiguring Main Street and some of the ancillary side streets around Main Street with about $12 million.
That would be to basically redesign Main Street to accommodate for the outdoor dining and the permanent
infrastructure that would be necessary so he didn't necessarily have the barriers up that we have up right now which
we know is a semi-permanent or temporary measure that we can only do for a few years.

Now ultimately if you note, we're only spending, you know, in these suggestions between $13, $10 and $12 million.
We know we're going to need to use about $1.7 in other ways and that would still leave us with depending on the
numbers between a million to $2 million to spend in various ways on projects that may arise. We did outreach to the
various directors in city leadership here to start to ask for their projects that may be of interest that may qualify that we
could, you know, obviously recalibrate this plan as we go forward. But ultimately what | think we want to try to do is
avoid the kitchen sink approach which is, you know, let's put a plan together where it's everything but the kitchen sink
gets into it. So we really water down the impact. $200,000 for, you know, XYZ business or, you know, $300,000 for
maybe a roof replacement for a very understanding nonprofit that may need it. | would suggest wouldn't make the
community impact that you're going to be able to make if you really focus this one-time infusion of revenue. If we
could prioritize where we think that those monies should go, | think this community could really benefit from it in the
long run.

So really what I'm hoping to do now is turn this over to more of a discussion to hear people's thoughts. I'm going to
see if | can pull up the website that we recently put together as well so folks can see it. I'm not sure if my screen is still
being shared or no.

So that's interesting.

Alderman Lopez

You trying to trick us into investing into more infrastructure.
Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

Donna do you know why this isn't...

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

You double click on the edge right after the zoom meeting. Right before that. Double click on that, because you're
not bringing the internet up.

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director
Double click on which one?
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

You do either do Google or the Edge.